Ordine și Haos. Mit și magie în cultura tradițională româneasca by Andrei Oișteanu

The regional names, on the one hand being multiple, on the other hand being diverse, impose a nomenclature that enhances the identified symbol (phytomorph, anthropomorph, avimorph, zoomorph, etc.), depending on the ethnographic area of the country. Even if most scientific names, related to phytonyms, are of Latin origin, we note that there are also exceptions (for example, a term of Greek origin and another of Roman origin – Atropa belladonna – or a term that reminds us of the legendary Achilles, and the other of Latin origin – Achillea millefolium). The scientific name is intended to stop possible confusions that arise when two different plants have identical regional names. He is the brother of American poet Valery Oisteanu.By referring to a few healing herbs (belladonna, yarrow), using as a reference point both the scientific (scholarly) denominative and the folk (naive) models, we underline the dividing line between scientific thinking and empirical thinking. Specialized in the history of mentalities and the investigation of rituals and magic, he is, together with Ioan Petru Culianu, one of Mircea Eliade's leading disciples in Romania. Noted for his work on the history of religions, theology, Jewish studies, and the history of antisemitism, he is a researcher at the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest, a member of the Romanian Academy's Folklore and Ethnology Commission, and a member of the International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences in London.

He is also a Romanian historian, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. H He is a researcher at the Institute for History of Religions (Institutul de Istorie a Religiilor), Romanian Academy.

He is a researcher at the Institute for History of Religions (Institutul de Istorie a Religiilor), Romanian Academy.

Ordine și Haos. Mit și magie în cultura tradițională româneasca by Andrei Oișteanu